Israeli soldiers use Gaza citizens as shields to save their dogs from Hamas booby traps

[David__77]

Israeli soldiers are using Palestinian citizens as human shields in Gaza, a report said. Captive men are sent into buildings wearing military clothes with cameras attached to their foreheads, where the IDF suspects Hamas fighters may be hiding. After finishing with one building, these people are handed over by IDF soldiers to another unit, which repeats the operation against the Palestinians' will.

The Israeli soldiers intimidate the captives to go on these runs which could end -- threatening to shoot them if they disagree, the Associated Press said in a report quoting a survivor.

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers confirmed the use of Gaza residents as human shields during the ground operations, claiming that it was approved by their higher-ups in Tel Aviv. Every platoon "used a Palestinian to clear locations" the US news agency said quoting a source. In a shocking revelation, the soldiers added that it was preferred by units as it sped up operations, saved ammunition, and spared combat dogs from injury or death.

The Israeli military calls it the "mosquito protocol" while Palestinians used are referred to as "wasps", the report said.

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https://www.theweek.in/news/middle-east/2025/05/24/israeli-soldiers-use-gaza-citizens-as-shields-to-save-their-dogs-from-hamas-booby-traps-ambush-idf-s-shocking-mosquito-protocol.amp.html

[Bayard]

1. War crimes, again and again

It sounds like your regular Israeli soldier is okay with this, and anything else. It makes me despair for humanity, and the U.S., if it is so easy for the brainwashed to treat people like this. If trump and his minions continue unchecked, I can see it happening here.

[Mosby]

2. Recycled propaganda

Here we go again.
@AP
APs story on Israel's alleged use of human shields is a repeat of an identical story from 2024 that appeared in
@nytimes @washingtonpost CNN guardian. Even down to the same decontextualized photos supplied by politicized NGO
@BtSIsrael

All 5 stories use Breaking the Silence, whose critics repeatedly allege, appears to frequently rely on “either fabricated or exaggerated” testimonies from former soldiers & are “motivated by financial & political concerns to further a pro-Palestinian agenda.”

That Breaking the Silence is the source for 5 virtually identical media stories in the past several months demonstrates how this is an organized campaign by the highly politicized org and is a prime example of the symbiotic relationship between agenda-driven NGOs and the media.

Link to tweet

[David__77]

3. AP states that this was asserting by numerous IDF officers.

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. Quoting a "survivor." Could be a hamas fighter and militant. Could be someone that supports them.

Who the hell knows?

[David__77]

5. I'm sure someone thought My Lai survivors might be "VC".

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. Again, if the Hamas government didn't want a war, they shouldn't have started it.

I guess after Pearl Harbor, we should have done nothing.
And the Chinese should have rolled over after the Marco Polo Bridge incident.

[David__77]

7. I don't think ethnic cleansing is justified, which is a stated goal of Israel's war.

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. I see. So what is your opinion of Hamas' stated goal of genocide with "from the river to the sea?"